You know you have been watching too much Star Trek:TNG when

From: paradis@ERA.COM (Lisa Berkenbilt)
 Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
 Subject: lists of stuff
 Message-ID: <1992Oct2.160902.9343@ERA.COM>
 Date: 2 Oct 92 16:09:02 GMT
 Organization: Engineering Research Associates, Vienna, VA

 This list primarily deals with software engineering... specifically,
 UI and signal processing:

 You know you have been watching too much Star Trek:TNG when...

 10. You start referring to data to plot as "he".
 9.  You are ready to run your code and say "Engage!"
 8.  Someone suggests a design change and you say "Make it so!"
 7.  When you need to alert the team of the change, you say
  "send the following message in all known languages and
  frequencies"
 6.  You see someone in the hall, you refer to that person as
  being "In visual range"
 5.  When going to demonstrate a display, you say "On screen!"
 4.  When injecting a signal into a program, you way "Open all hailing
  frequencies"
 3.  You need to use someone's keyboard, you say "May I have the conn?"
  or: when you let someone else use your keyboard, you say "Take
  the conn"
 2.  Someone you're looking forward enters the room, you say "Sensors
  locked!"
 1.  Your supervisor walks in and you say "Shields up!"

 It was a *rough* week at work....

 --Lisa
 --
 --Lisa Berkenbilt | "I hope the captain
 Engineering Research Associates, Vienna, VA USA |  doesn't notice that I'm
 paradis@ERA.COM                          |  playing Romulan Invaders!"
  PICARD/RIKER '92

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